How to spot and overcome ghost jobs [Video]

There can be ample roadblocks during a job hunt, including so-called “ghost” jobs.

These can be phantom listings for jobs that don’t exist, or those posted such a long time ago that it seems the job may not be available.

Luckily, there are ways for job seekers to sidestep the challenges of a potential specter job and raise their odds of landing as real gig, according to career experts.

Ghost jobs aren’t a nascent phenomenon, but a hot pandemic-era job market turbocharged some seemingly bad behavior.

Ghosting among job seekers and employers, for example, has become more prevalent as parties more frequently go silent during the hiring process.

Recent labor market dynamics also brought terms like the great resignation, quiet quitting and loud quittinginto the collective lexicon. Such “fun” new names belie the fact that these trends existed — albeit perhaps with less prevalence — before the pandemic, said Mandi Woodruff-Santos, a …